Discuss the implications for educators and education practices

Technology: The Panacea of Education

• The promise of technology
• Decreasing or increasing the gap?
• The rhetoric sets out that technology will decrease the divide in education Is this the case? Is it increasing the divide?
• Has the DER removed funding inequity from our school system?

Attitudes of Teachers Towards the Use of Technology

• More research needs to be done within this particular context
• Teacher cynicism
  • Efficacy of technology based pedagogy
  • Efficacy of collaboration
• Teacher confidence

The Burden of Workload

• Who is responsible?
• Administration, content and pedagogy
• Teachers expected/need to maintain technology, as well as produce content

Automata

• The push towards vocationalism

References

Bhati, N., Mercer, S., Rankin, K., Thomas, B. 2009. ‘Barriers and facilitators to the adoption of tools for online pedagogy’,International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, Vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 5-19

Burnett, A., Cherry, R., Proctor, N., Samis, P. 2011. ‘Getting on (not under) the mobile 2.0 bus: emerging issues in the mobile business model’, Museums and the Web: Proceedings, March 31 2011, viewed 27 April 2011, <http://conference.archimuse.com/mw2011/papers/getting_on_not_under_the_mobile_20_bus>.

Cobcroft, R., Towers, S., Smith, J. & Bruns, A. 2006, ‘Mobile learning in review: opportunities and challenges for learners, teachers, and institutions’, Proceedings Online Learning and Teaching (OLT) Conference 2006, pp. 21-30.